State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce was asked about aid distribution in Gaza.
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00:00Food, though, because having to say that there is widespread criticism and actual self-criticism
00:05by the consulting group that was supporting the foundation, which is backed out of it,
00:11that the distribution system was not as professional as either the UN, excuse me, or the World Food
00:18Program and other people who are used to working in this area, and that there should have been
00:22more distribution points where people would not have been told to line up.
00:26Andrea, again, you know what, but these questions now, these are critiques of an environment
00:32that we've talked about regularly every day.
00:35Every time I'm up here, it is this critique of, I say 7 million meals have been distributed,
00:41but, you know, it would have been, but not for you, it should have been those guys over
00:44there or these people over here.
00:47Over the last three years with the UN or the World Food Program, no one has distributed
00:537 million meals to Gaza.
00:55Many, many hundreds of thousands of people in Israel, as well as the Hamas, the families
01:01of the people being held by Hamas, are protesting this food decision.
01:06The former defense minister criticized these decisions.
01:10There's plenty to try to dispute with these policies.
01:11Well, I'm sorry, Andrea, Andrea, I understand.
01:14I understand.
01:16I'm not, I don't think any of us are going to be protesting 7 million meals being distributed.
01:22I just, that, when we think about what the story is, they're in that region and in general
01:28with everything that happens, someone's not going to be happy, someone's going to think
01:31it could have been done a better way.
01:33And yet it wasn't being done.
01:35It wasn't being done.
01:36This managed to be done.
01:38It is continuing on.
01:39I want as many meals to be distributed as possible.
01:42They seem to be doing that.
01:44And I understand everyone has their opinion.
01:46But this is not a debate about, you know, who would have had the better idea.
01:51This is what's happening.
01:52And the meals are being distributed.
01:55And I thought, after three months of being harangued in this room by many of you, about
02:00don't you care about the starving Gazans?
02:03Seven million meals.
02:05And now we're being harangued about it's not by the right people.
02:08We have to move on from that.
02:10Yes, sir.